Peep Show

Milwaukee Bucks: The Bucks don't play the Hawks for at least a few months but
that isn't stopping Milwaukee coach George Karl from rooting against
Atlanta tonight. "I'm not an expert on the draft, but I'd say No. 8
has a lot better chance of being a starter or a guy to have an impact
in very few years, than a No. 14," Karl said in the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel. "I've always thought the top 10 is a cutoff point. After 10,
it gets a little chancy." The Hawks have a 10.3 percent chance of
gaining one of the Top 3 picks. But if they don't, they have to send
their pick, which could be as high as No. 8, to the Bucks to satisfy a
previous trade involving Glenn Robinson.

Chicago Bulls: At least one general manager isn't buying into all the LeBron
James hype. "If [adding another young player] is what has to be done,
you do it, but it's probably not the most ideal thing," Bulls GM John
Paxson said in the Chicago Tribune. "Everybody would like to get lucky
and move up." Paxson and the Bulls, hinting that they may trade the
pick, know all about drafting high schoolers, having already selected
two in a previous draft. "The reality is -- and this is the way I'm going
into it -- we're probably going to pick seven or eight. We can probably
get a real good player. Is it a player who can help us right away or
one who's younger and needs time to develop? That's the issue because
we have a young enough team right now."

Denver Nuggets: The much-heralded Darko Milicic from Serbia isn't asking for
much. "That is all I want. A young team with a plan and that wants to
win for the future," he said through an interpreter in the Denver
Post. But it would be awfully nice if that young team also features the
Serbian-speaking Predrag Savovic and Nikoloz Tskitishvili like the
Nuggets do. "It would be huge," said Milicic. "It would be the same
thing as if I brought somebody from home."